The Pop Group & Sleaford Mods to Release a Split 7'

The Pop Group and Sleaford Mods release a split 7" on Monday June 18th through Freaks R Us.
The single features "Face To Faces" a raw alternate version of a track featured on the forthcoming Sleaford Mods new album,and "Nations," a track taken from Citizen Zombie, The Pop Group's critically acclaimed first new studio album in some 35 years.

https://soundcloud.com/thepopgroup/sets/the-pop-group-sleaford-mods/s-yF0jx

The Pop Group have just returned from the first leg of their world tour which took in Japan, New Zealand, Australia and NORTH AMERICA culminating at three incendiary performaces at SXSW. The band will soon resume its tour with dates in the UK ahead of European gigs. Here's live footage of their performance in L.A.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9OmDdBQ-Yk I'm hoping you might consider covering them via feature or album review. Please let me know if you need the music. Here's the latest coverage of their North American dates that's appeared:

I was kind of scared to see the Pop Group because, you know, older band making a comeback. Ummm this was the most punk-rock experience I think I had all week, so basically I am a fool and idiot for underestimating the mighty Pop Group. They played in Hotel Vegas' outdoor area and all the dancing I didn't get to do at Rae Sremmurd happened in the service of these guys until... The sound blew out on (I think) "She's Beyond Good and Evil." A wave of disappointed moans washed across East Austin. Somewhere in a different dimension they are still echoing today because this was and would have been amazing.

Liz Louche/TinyMixTapes.com March

Things got darker and more intense after The Lees for Ex-Cult, whose abrasive PSYCH punk was loud, in your face, and full of attitude. That kind of intense attitude didn't go away when post-punk pioneers The Pop Group followed. It's easy to throw around the phrase "ahead of their time," but The Pop Group's set even sounded radical in 2015. Frontman Mark Stewart praised the US for having a great underground music scene, which was pretty amazing coming from a person still embodying underground music over 35 years after his band's debut album.

Andrew Sacher/BrooklynVegan.com 3/28

Old men rocking like young punks. A lead singer who has a lyric sheet out the entire show, but never looks at it once. Angry grimaces and lyrics about lady zombies. SIGN ME UP!

Annie Lesser/CMJ.com 3/26

Y staples like "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" and "Thief of Fire" that were assaulting, but it was weird seeing the band in a club where you have to cross the stage to reach the bathroom. Adam Gold/Nashville Scene 3/26
The list of The Pop Group's UK shows is as follows:

MAY

5th Brighton The Haunt

6th Norwich Arts Centre

8th London The Dome, Tufnell Park

9th Sheffield Plug

10th Glasgow CCA Arts Centre

11th Liverpool Kazimier

June

12th Birmingham Supersonic Festival

21st Ramsgate Ramsgate Music Hall

27-29 Glastonbury Glastonbury Festival

Sleaford Mods also have a run of UK dates starting in May. Their dates are as follows:

MAY

14th Norwich Waterfront Studio

15th Manchester Academy 2

16th Leeds Brudenell Social Club

23rd Brighton Concorde 2

JUNE

4th Sheffield Leadmill

5th London Koko

27-29 Glastonbury Glastonbury Festival

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